{"id":2353,"date":"2026-07-29T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:30:03","slug":"harry-reser-meyer-davis-orchestras-on-british-duophone-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2026\/07\/29\/harry-reser-meyer-davis-orchestras-on-british-duophone-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reser &#038; Meyer Davis Orchestras On British Duophone &#8211; 1928"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LadyDuophone1928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"993\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LadyDuophone1928.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LadyDuophone1928-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LadyDuophone1928-1024x942.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LadyDuophone1928-768x706.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 31px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 31px; width: 628px;\"><strong>&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Victorian Syncopators; Jack Parker, vocal<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 10, 1928\u00a0 (Duophone D-4003 mx E-28191 B)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2353-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Victorian-Syncopators-I-Dont-Care.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Victorian-Syncopators-I-Dont-Care.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Victorian-Syncopators-I-Dont-Care.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 13px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 31px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 31px; width: 628px;\"><strong>\u201cBuy Buy For Baby\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Cross Roads Inn Orchestra; Smith Ballew, vocal<\/strong><br \/>\ncirca November 1928\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Duophone D-4044 mx E-28645 A)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2353-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Cross-Roads-Orchestra-Buy-Buy-For-Baby.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Cross-Roads-Orchestra-Buy-Buy-For-Baby.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Cross-Roads-Orchestra-Buy-Buy-For-Baby.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 13px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 31px;\">\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2ebeb; padding-left: 40px; height: 31px; width: 628px;\"><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re Wonderful&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tex Brewster&#8217;s Orchestra; Smith Ballew, vocal<\/strong><br \/>\ncirca November 1928\u00a0 (Duophone D-4017 mx E 28619-A)<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2353-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tex-Brewsters-Orchestra-Youre-Wonderful.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tex-Brewsters-Orchestra-Youre-Wonderful.mp3\">https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tex-Brewsters-Orchestra-Youre-Wonderful.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 13px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 13px; width: 628px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/01\/10\/update-edward-mitchell-78-rpm-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward Mitchell<\/a> collection, here are three sides from the British Duophone label&#8217;s D-4000 catalog series.\u00a0 Eddie enjoyed collecting and specifically sought out records from that catalog series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgthomas.co.uk\/Records\/LabelPages\/Duophone.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duophone<\/a> was the name of an early 1920s phonograph with a special double soundbox that increased volume.\u00a0 The company began issuing Duophone records in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>In 1926, Duophone introduced a flexible, &#8220;unbreakable&#8221; record format that supposedly could be rolled up into a tube without damaging the grooves.\u00a0 These records are now rare, and I have yet to run across one. Ironically, the examples that survive today tend to be fragile and brittle.<\/p>\n<p>In 1928, Duophone acquired the British branch of Brunswick Records.\u00a0 The new corporate ties with American Brunswick resulted in the Duophone D-4000 series, which was launched in November 1928.\u00a0 The series was devoted to recordings made by American Brunswick artists specifically for release under Duophone pseudonyms.<\/p>\n<p>American recordings being issued under pseudonyms on foreign labels was an extremely common practice at the time.\u00a0 Leasing masters to foreign labels was an additional source of revenue for record labels or, in some cases, a way of obtaining foreign masters for release in the United States.\u00a0 \u00a0However, in the overwhelming majority of cases, such recordings had already been issued in the United States or consisted of takes that, for one reason or another, the label chose not to issue domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Recordings in the Duophone D-4000 series are unusual in that they were recorded by well-known Brunswick artists, specifically commissioned for foreign release under pseudonyms and never issued in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>There were two reasons for this:\u00a0 First, many of the recordings the artists made for American Brunswick were also issued on British Brunswick, which, by this time, was owned by Duophone.\u00a0 Second, records in the Duophone D-4000 series sold for half the price of a British Brunswick record.\u00a0 Issuing the recordings under the artists&#8217; actual names would have cannibalized sales of recordings by those same artists on the company&#8217;s higher-priced label.<\/p>\n<p>Duotone D-4000 series records were available in both the new flexible disc format and as conventional shellac discs.\u00a0 All of the Duophone records in Eddie&#8217;s collection are shellac.<\/p>\n<p>Another unusual aspect of the D-4000 series was that several catalog numbers were issued with different couplings.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the recording here of &#8220;Buy Buy For Baby&#8221; by Meyer Davis and His Swanee Syncopators, credited to the Cross Roads Inn Orchestra, from the Duophone D-4044 in Eddie&#8217;s collection has, on its flip side, a waltz called &#8220;Bon Soir Cherie (Goodnight),&#8221; also by Meyer Davis&#8217;s orchestra but credited as the Newport Tuxedo Inn Orchestra.\u00a0 \u00a0However, other copies of Duophone D-4044 pair &#8220;Buy Buy For Baby&#8221; with &#8220;That&#8217;s How I Feel About You, Sweetheart&#8221; by Arnold Johnson and His Orchestra, credited as Donald&#8217;s Yankee Club Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>The very jazzy and jubilant recording here of &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care,&#8221; credited to the Victorian Syncopators, was, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Reser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Reser&#8217;s<\/a> band playing in the same novelty style he used on the recordings he made for Brunswick as The Six Jumping Jacks.\u00a0 The uncredited vocalist is Jack Parker, a stage name frequently used on radio and records by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/221836789\/horace-alfred-ruwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harace A. Ruwe<\/a>.\u00a0 At the opening of the recording, you can hear the unmistakable voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Stacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Stacks<\/a>, who usually provided the vocal on Six Jumping Jacks recordings, ask the question, &#8220;Why should I care?&#8221; For more information about Tom Stacks, see this blog&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2026\/07\/26\/the-jazz-pilots-1925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post from a few days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The recordings of &#8220;Buy Buy For Baby,&#8221; credited as the Cross Roads Inn Orchestra, and &#8220;It&#8217;s Wonderful,&#8221; credited as Tex Brewster&#8217;s Orchestra, were, in fact, recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/04\/06\/archives\/meyer-davis-orchestra-leader-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meyer Davis&#8217;s<\/a> Swanee Syncopators.\u00a0 Smith Ballew provides the vocal on both selections.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Tex Brewster&#8221; pseudonym wasn&#8217;t entirely made up: Tex Brewster was a real person and a musician in the Meyer Davis band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; The Victorian Syncopators; Jack Parker, vocal September 10, 1928\u00a0 (Duophone D-4003 mx E-28191 B) \u201cBuy Buy For Baby\u201d The Cross Roads Inn Orchestra; Smith Ballew, vocal circa November 1928\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Duophone D-4044 mx E-28645 A) &#8220;You&#8217;re Wonderful&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2026\/07\/29\/harry-reser-meyer-davis-orchestras-on-british-duophone-1928\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":78,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,79,103,102,101,104],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1920s-recordings","tag-harry-reser","tag-horace-a-rowe","tag-jack-parker","tag-meyer-davis","tag-smith-ballew"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harry Reser &amp; Meyer Davis Orchestras On British Duophone - 1928 - Musical Notes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three sides from 1928 being added to Radio Dismuke&#039;s playlist by well-known American artists specifically recorded for foreign release under pseudonyms and never issued in the USA. 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